George McWhirter

George McWhirter was born on 26 September 1939 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He received a B.A. and Dip.Ed. from Queen's University Belfast in the early 1960s and taught school in Northern Ireland and Spain before moving to Canada in 1966. McWhirter received an M.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1970, then taught creative writing at the university for the next thirty-five years. In addition to his novels, short stories, and poems, McWhirter has written radio plays, translated works by Mexican poets, and worked as a magazine editor. On 8 March 2007, he was named Vancouver's first Poet Laureate. McWhirter lives in Vancouver.

Books by George McWhirter

	1971 Catalan Poems (poetry)
	1974 Bodyworks (short stories)
	1976 Queen of the Sea (poetry)
	1978 Twenty-Five (poetry)
	1981 The Island Man (poetry)
	1981 God's Eye (short stories)
	1982 Coming to Grips with Lucy (short stories)
	1983 Fire Before Dark (poetry)
	1984 A Bad Day To Be Winning (short stories)
	1985 Paula Lake (novel)
	1987 Cage (novel)
	1991 The Listeners (novel)
	1996 A Staircase For All Souls (poetry)
	1996 Musical Dogs (short stories)
	1997 Incubus: The Dark Side of the Light (poetry)
	2002 The Book of Contradictions (poetry)
	2007 The Incorrection (poetry)
	2008 The Anachronicles (poetry)

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